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Watch Malick’s movie take root in Smithville
Some crafty YouTubers have posted clips of what they claim (and we have no reason not to believe them) is video of the actual moving and planting of the title live oak in Terrence Malick’s “Tree of Life,” which starts shooting in March in Smithville with Brad Pitt and Sean Penn.
There’s a helicopter view and two ground-level scenes. So this is the centerpiece of the movie, which is reported to weigh 65,000 pounds and had to be hauled quite a stretch.
News from East Austin Stories, the series of UT student short films depicting a prismatic look at the East Side in all its hues and moods, overseen by UT film prof Andrew Garrison:
“Quinceanera” by Sergio Carvajal and Ruwan Perera plays at SXSW in the Texas Shorts program.
“Letters for Las Manitas” by Joshua Tate, Yuta Yamaguchi and Jeff Gipson is screening at the San Francisco International Children’s Film Festival.
And Garrison’s own feature documentary “Third Ward TX,” about Project Row Houses in Houston, is airing on KLRU beginning Monday night. Showtimes: 9 p.m. Monday; 10 p.m. Tuesday; 12 a.m. Thursday; and 2 a.m. Saturday.
Watch the “Third Ward TX” trailer HERE.
‘Third Ward TX’
A top-tier cast — including Jesse Plemons, Brad Williams and Dana Wheeler-Nicholson, all from “Friday Night Lights” — will read the new script by filmmaker brothers Alex and Andrew Smith at 7:30 p.m. March 2 at Cap City Comedy Club (8120 Research Blvd.).
The script is “Out of the Woods,” a feature length road film by the Smiths, whose 2002 drama “The Slaughter Rule,” starring Ryan Gosling and Amy Adams, played Sundance and was nominated for an Independent Spirit Award.
The brothers are on a hot streak: They’ve been named by Variety as one of Ten Screenwriters to Watch, and recently sold a one-hour TV crime drama to the F/X network.
Put on by the Austin Film Festival, the special reading is part of the Conversations in Film series sponsored by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.
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